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The Indiansubcontinent is a peninsular landmass of the Asian continent occupying the Indian Plate and extending into the Indian Ocean, bordered on the north by the Eurasian Plate.

The region is known as a subcontinent because its geography and geology are distinct from the rest of the continent.

Geographically, the Indiansubcontinent is a peninsular region south of the Himalayas and east of the Hindu Kush mountain range and Balochistan region, extending southward into the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Sea (to the southwest) and the Bay of Bengal (to the southeast).

At least 30 people were injured in the flood-hit eastern Indian state of Bihar when they clashed with police demanding food and clothes, witnesses and officials said.

SRINAGAR, Kashmir (AP) - A fire broke out at the Indian army's largest arms depot in Kashmir on Saturday, wounding at least 37 people, officials said, as shells exploded into the air and a massive plume of fl smoke blanketed the Himalayan region.

DUBAI - India's new Ambassador to the UAE Talmiz Ahmad yesterday said boosting bilateral and economic ties between the UAE and India and addressing the issues of Indian community would be his key objectives.

Indian Literature, writings in the languages and literary traditions of the Indiansubcontinent.

For centuries Indian society has been characterized by diversity—the people of modern India speak 18 major languages and many other minor languages and dialects; Urdu is the principal language of Pakistan, and Urdu and Bengali are used in Bangladesh.

At the same time, Indian literature was influenced by the Persian language and its literature, which various Muslim conquerors brought to the Indiansubcontinent.

Geologically, most of this region is a subcontinent because it rests on a tectonic plate of its own, the India Plate, separate from the rest of Eurasia and was once a small continent before colliding with the Eurasian Plate and giving birth to the Himalayan range and the Tibetan plateau.

Historically, the Indiansubcontinent was known as Hindustan in medieval times during the Islamic period and included at one time or another various parts of the region, and "British India" or simply "India," during the British Raj period.

The Indiansubcontinent is the peninsularregion of SouthAsia, which includes India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, usually also Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and some disputed territory currently controlled by China, and sometimes Myanmar.

Geologically, this region is a subcontinent because it rests on a tectonic plate of its own, the India Plate, separate from the rest of Eurasia and was once a small continent before colliding with the Eurasian Plate and giving birth to the Himalayan range and the Tibetan plateau.

We also review recent evidence indicating that the burden of coronary heart disease in the Indiansubcontinent is largely explained on the basis of traditional risk factors, which challenges the common thinking that SouthAsian ethnicity per se is a strong independent risk factor for coronary heart disease.

The Indiansubcontinent (including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) is home to 20 per cent of the world's population and may be one of the regions with the highest burden of CVD in the world.

The huge burden of CVD in the Indiansubcontinent is the consequence of the large population and the high prevalence of CVD risk factors.

We shall examine the contributions of Indian mathematics in this article, but before looking at this contribution in more detail we should say clearly that the "huge debt" is the beautiful number system invented by the Indians on which much of mathematical development has rested.

Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulbasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry were older being contained in the altar constructions described in the Vedic mythology text the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita.

The earliest known urban Indian culture was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab and then, one year later, at Mohenjo-daro, near the Indus River in the Sindh.

The "Cobras" are one of the Indian Navy's better known squadrons, participating in all wars and being blooded in 1971.

The Indian Navy, thus turned to HAL to provide the four helicopters and the first Aloutte-IIIs, under the name, "Chetak", were delivered to the Indian Navy, by mid-1964.

The naval element at Sulur was recommissioned as the Indian Navy's second base "INS Hansa", on 2 September 1951, and began operating the Vampires of the 'Naval Jet Flight' from 1957 onwards, the transfer of the Vampire T.Mk.55 from the Air Force having taken place in 1952.

The Indiansubcontinent is the peninsularregion of larger SouthAsia in which the nations of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka as well as parts of Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and some disputed territory currently controlled by China are located.

Geologically, the notion of a subcontinent is based on the fact that this region rests on a tectonic plate of its own, separate from the rest of Asia.

Indian copyright law is now on par with the most modern law in the field.

Indian patent protection is weak and has had especially adverse effects on U.S. pharmaceutical and chemical firms.

Indian patent law prohibits product patents for any invention intended for use or capable of being used as a food, medicine, or drug, or relating to substances prepared or produced by chemical processes.

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HighBeam Encyclopedia - Indian subcontinent(Site not responding. Last check: )

INDIANSUBCONTINENT[Indiansubcontinent]region, S centralAsia, comprising the countries of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and the Himalayan states of Nepal, and Bhutan.

Sri Lanka, an island off the southeastern tip of the Indianpeninsula, is often considered a part of the subcontinent.

Indian (IN-dee-uhn) adj.: Although the word Indian has come to refer to two groups of people, for the purposes of our discussions we will distinguish Indians as only those who are of the Indian diaspora.

Indian (in-DHI-uhn) adj.: You know them; the kids who stink up your kitchen religiously every day with warmed-up curry dishes from mother, whose ideal romance involves a Hindi movie-like song-and-dance routine in the fields, who take every possible opportunity to blast the evil of the rogue state that is Pakistan.

Balance is extremely important to “Indians” as they strive to be normal while staying in touch with their cow-loving roots; however, this oftentimes results in the shutting out of Indians, for fear that they will become one of them.

Indian experts assert the upcoming Agni-III test is part of an ambitious project to bolster national security and is not aimed at provoking an arms race with nuclear rival Pakistan.

PATNA- Ten patients have died and dozens are deserting hospitals in the easternIndian state of Bihar as doctors continue their strike in protest against the abduction of a colleague, officials said on Friday.

On Thursday, the Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna confirmed that the illegal immigrants had been taken back by Dhaka but he declined to comment on whether the meeting between the two foreign ministers was still on the cards.